utf9k

This is my personal website, which is powered by Astro and Markdown.

It also has some live, progressive enhancement elements powered by gunslinger.

Of particular interest is the live player on the homepage which surfaces metadata when I'm watching the following types of media:

• anime/tv series
  • powered by plex apis
  • fallback checkins powered by trakt
• movies
  • powered by plex apis
  • fallback checkins powered by trakt
• music
  • local music powered by plex apis
  • streaming music powered by tidal but surfaced via plex apis
• manga
  • powered by anilist apis
• games
  • powered by steam apis
• podcasts
  • powered by (unreleased podcast player that has a web api)

Getting setup

To get started, you'll want to install Bun using one of the variety of officially supported installation methods.

You can use Node.js as well but personally I use Bun these days and haven't encountered anything it can't support.

Once you've got all of that set up, running bun dev should do everything required to start up a local server.

You should be able to access the development version of the site at http://localhost:1313

Deployment

Builds are executed using Github Actions with the resulting static output being deployed to Bunny Storage.

From there, my site is replicated using Bunny CDN.

I've used hosted services like Netlify and Cloudflare Pages in the past but I found that, surprisingly, their CDNs are not necessarily the fastest plus when you're not paying, you have no leverage during any inevitable outages.

Pushes to main will update utf9k.net automatically although depending on what changes, I sometimes manually trigger a cache purge.

Using Act

This repo is also compatible with act, a tool for running Github Actions locally.

Running act will perform the entire build pipeline, aside from deployment to Cloudflare Pages.

It is essentially the same workflow as bun run deploy, just that it will also install all prerequisite tools like Hugo, Cue and so on.

In theory, you could also use act -b to build the site and output it from the container but I make no guarantees that it would work.